Philadelphia, PA—Each year, SIAM designates as Fellows of the society those who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. This year, 31 members of the community have been selected for this distinction:

Members of the community recognized for their outstanding contributions

Philadelphia, PA—SIAM Fellows are designated each year to recognize members of the community for their distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational science and related fields. The Fellows Selection Committee selects Fellows based on nominations by SIAM members.

The new Class of Fellows, listed below in alphabetical order will be honored at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon to be held at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Beijing in August.

Charu C. Aggarwal, a distinguished research staff member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, is being conferred SIAM Fellowship for contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining algorithms. Aggarwal has previously served as the Vice Chair of the SIAM Activity Group (SIAG) on Data Mining. His research interests include data mining, with an emphasis in data streams and scalable data analytics.

Ann S. Almgren of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is being recognized for contributions to the development of numerical methods for fluid dynamics and applying them to large-scale scientific and engineering problems. A staff scientist with the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at LBNL, Almgren’s research interests are in asymptotic analysis, numerical analysis and high-performance computing. She serves on the editorial board for SIAM Review.

Aharon Ben-Tal is the Dresner Chair in Engineering Methods at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is being recognized as a SIAM Fellow for contributions to continuous optimization, both theory and applications, including the field of robust optimization. He serves on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Optimization.

Vincent D. Blondel, President of Universite catholique de Louvain, is being recognized for contributions to analysis and algorithms for graphs and networks and computational complexity analysis of control problems. His area of research spans mathematical control theory, theoretical computer science and network science. He has previously served as the Program Director for the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory and received the SIAG/Control and Systems Theory Prize in 2001.

Stephen P. Boyd of Stanford University is being recognized as a SIAM Fellow for fundamental contributions to the development, teaching, and practice of optimization in engineering. The Samsung Professor in the school of engineering and Director of the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford, Boyd’s research interests are in convex optimization, computer-aided analysis, design, and modeling of systems, and algorithms for control system design and performance validation. He is a SIAM author.

Fred Brauer, honourary professor at the University of British Columbia, is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to differential equations, predator-prey systems and harvesting, mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases, and applied mathematics education. His area of specialization includes ordinary differential equations, population biology, and mathematical epidemiology. Brauer is a SIAM author.

Franco Brezzi is a professor of numerical analysis at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia. Brezzi is being honored for fundamental contributions to the theory, development, and practice of finite element methods, including mixed, hybrid, discontinuous, and virtual element Galerkin methods. He received SIAM’s prestigious John von Neumann Lecture in 2009. Brezzi’s research work focuses on the analysis of stability, convergence and error estimates for numerical methods related to problems of engineering interest.

Fan Chung Graham of the University of California, San Diego is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to combinatorics, graph theory, and their applications. She is a professor of mathematics and computer science and engineering as well as Paul Erdos Professor in Combinatorics at UCSD. Her areas of research span spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory, discrete geometry, algorithmic analysis, network games, Internet computing and networks sciences. She has previously served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics and SIAM Review.

Tyrone E. Duncan is being recognized for contributions to stochastic optimal and adaptive control, filtering theory, and stochastic analysis. A professor in the department of mathematics and courtesy professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, his research spans differential geometry, probability, stochastic control, and statistics. Duncan received SIAM’s W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics in 2013.

Charles M. Elliott of the University of Warwick is being honored for contributions to the numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations. Elliot is the Director of the Warwick MASDOC Centre for Doctoral Training and a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations and computational mathematics with applications in mathematical biology, materials science, continuum mechanics, and phase transitions, as well as numerical analysis and applied analysis.

Anne Greenbaum, a mathematics and applied mathematics professor in the University of Washington, is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to theoretical and numerical linear algebra. Greenbaum has previously received the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (1994), and served as the Vice Chair for the SIAG on Linear Algebra, as well as on the SIAM Board and Council. Her research interests are in nonnormal matrices, numerical linear algebra, iterative methods for solving large linear systems, integral equations, and fast methods for solving the corresponding PDEs

William W. Hager of the University of Florida is being honored for contributions to optimal control, optimization theory, and numerical optimization algorithms. Hager is a co-director of the Center for Applied Optimization and a professor at the University of Florida. His research work focuses on numerical analysis, optimization, optimal control, and lightning.

Per Christian Hansen is a professor of scientific computing at Technical University of Denmark. He is being recognized for contributions to algorithms for rank-deficient and discrete ill-posed problems and regularization techniques. His research interests are in numerical analysis, algorithms for inverse problems, imaging, and tomography, matrix computations, iterative regularization algorithms, subspace methods in regularization and signal processing, and high-performance scientific computing.

Tamara G. Kolda, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, is being recognized for contributions to numerical algorithms and software in multi-linear algebra, optimization, and graph analysis. Her research interests include multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, graph models and algorithms, data mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, parallel computing and the design of scientific software. Kolda is a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. She has previously served on the SIAM Activity Group on CS&E as Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary as well as the SIAG on Linear Algebra as Secretary.

Petros Koumoutsakos, a professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, is being conferred Fellowship for pioneering work in numerical methods and high-performance computing, multiscale modeling and computational fluid dynamics, and computational biology. His work is focused on multiscale modeling, uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization with the goal of understanding and predicting phenomena in areas ranging from engineering to life sciences.

Miroslav Krstic is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and Director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at University of California, San Diego. He is being recognized for seminal contributions to control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems. His research interests are in nonlinear control, PDE control, delay systems, and extremum seeking. Krstic is a SIAM book author.

Rachel A. Kuske, professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia, is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to the theory of stochastic and nonlinear dynamics and its application, and for promoting equity and diversity in mathematics. Her research area includes noise sensitivity, localized phenomena, coherence resonance with applications in neurodynamics, infectious diseases, mechanical systems, hydraulic fractures, and mathematical finance. Kuske serves on the SIAM Council and on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.

Charles E. Leiserson, professor of computer science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is being honored for the enduring influence on parallel computing systems and their adoption into mainstream use through scholarly research and development. Leiserson’s research interests include analysis of algorithms, computer-aided design and network architecture, computing machinery, multicore computing, parallel algorithms, architectures, and languages, parallel and distributed computing, scalable computing systems, software performance engineering, supercomputing and theoretical computer science.

>Qun Lin, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is being honored for contributions to numerical methods for partial differential equations and integral equations. His research work includes numerical analysis for partial differential equations, error expansions and accelerate convergence for finite element methods, numerical analysis of eigenvalue problems, as well as mathematics education and its reform. With SIAM Past President Doug Arnold, Lin has been crucial in helping SIAM promote membership in China.

Esmond G. Ng heads the applied mathematics department in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is being recognized for contributions to the development, analysis, and application of sparse matrix algorithms for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems. Ng has served as Vice Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing as well as on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. His areas of research span sparse matrix computation, numerical linear algebra, computational complexities, parallel computing, and mathematical software.

Hinke M. Osinga, a professor of applied mathematics at University of Auckland, is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to theory and computational methods for dynamical systems. Her research centers on theory and computational methods for dynamical systems, in particular, bifurcations of global manifolds, with applications in biological and engineering systems. Osinga has previously served as Treasurer, Secretary and Web Editor for the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems, and currently serves on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems.

Christopher C. Paige, Professor Emeritus in the school of computer science at McGill University, is being honored for contributions to matrix computations and numerical stability analysis, including fundamental insights into the Lanczos process. His areas of research interest are numerical analysis, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra and algorithms, rounding error analysis, and large sparse matrix methods. He received the SIAG/Linear Algebra Prize in 2012.

Rodolphe Sepulchre, a professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge, is being recognized for contributions to nonlinear control theory and nonlinear optimization. His areas of research span nonlinear control, optimization on manifolds, coordination, synchronization, and consensus on nonlinear spaces, and neural behaviors.

Halil Mete Soner, professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich, is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to the theory of stochastic optimal control, viscosity solutions and mathematical finance. His research centers on optimal stochastic optimal control, nonlinear parabolic equations, nondominated stochastic analysis, and their applications in mathematical finance. He currently serves on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, and has previously served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis.

Panagiotis E. Souganidis is the Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. He is being recognized for contributions to the theory and numerical solution of both deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations and their applications. His areas of research include applied mathematics, analysis, ecology and evolution, probability theory, mathematical physics, differential equations, and numerical analysis.

Ping Tak Peter Tang, a senior principle engineer at Intel Corporation, is being conferred SIAM Fellowship for contributions to scientific computing infrastructure including floating-point arithmetic and elementary-function computations and in transferring technology from academia to industry. Tang’s research focuses on computational algorithms including design, implementation, and analysis as well as various aspects of computer arithmetic.

Moshe Y. Vardi is Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. He is being recognized for contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems. His areas of research include applications of logic to computer science, database systems, complexity theory, multi-agent systems, and specification and verification of hardware and software.

Charles W. Wampler, Technical Fellow at General Motors Corporation, is being honored for his pioneering work in kinematics and the numerical solution of polynomial systems. His research interests include kinematics and polynomials, robotics, and numerical algebraic geometry. Wampler is a SIAM book author.

Clarence Eugene Wayne, a professor of mathematics at Boston University, is being recognized for contributions to the theory of dynamical systems and partial differential equations. His research interests include dynamical systems, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Wayne currently serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis and the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems.

Henry Wolkowicz, a professor in the department of combinatorics & optimization at the University of Waterloo is being conferred Fellowship for contributions to convex optimization and matrix theory. His areas of research span optimization, mathematical programming, scheduling problems, quadratic assignment problem, numerical analysis, convex analysis, matrix theory, and generalized inverses. Wolkowicz has previously served on the SIAM Council and as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.

Gang George Yin, a professor at Wayne State University, is being recognized for contributions to stochastic systems theory, modeling, computational methods, and applications. His research interests are in applied probability and stochastic processes, stochastic approximation and optimization, singular perturbation, numerical methods in stochastic systems, mathematics of finance, manufacturing systems, signal processing, communication network, and estimation and system identification. Yin is the current Chair, and has previously served as Vice Chair and Program Director for the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory. He also serves on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

In addition to raising the visibility of applied mathematics and computational science, the Fellows program helps makes SIAM members more competitive for awards and honors as well as leadership positions in the broader society.

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has announced that the Abel Prize for 2015 will go to American mathematicians John F. Nash, Jr. and Louis Nirenberg “for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.”

Diego Torrejon of the George Mason University SIAM student chapter writes:

The Northern Virginia Regional 32nd MATHCOUNTS competitions were held on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Glasgow Middle School in Alexandria, VA and at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Arlington, VA. These chapters include schools in Fairfax and Arlington counties as well as the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax City and Vienna. Over 450 sixth through eighth grade students from 51 elementary and middle schools competed at the events. Several members from the George Mason University SIAM student chapter participated in this outreach event as judges, scorers and volunteers.

Sarah Swatski, Vice President of the SIAM Student Chapter at UMBC, writes:

On Wednesday, March 11, the UMBC SIAM Student Chapter hosted Navigating the Transition from Grad School to a Career. We were very pleased to have Susan Hindle, Assistant Director for Internships and Employment with the UMBC Career Center as well as Dr. Bedrich Sousedik and Dr. Kofi Adragni, Assistant Professors in the UMBC Department of Mathematics and Statistics, speaking at this event. Susan Hindle shared information on the many services offered by the Career Center and discussed when to use and how to construct a “30-second commercial” or “elevator pitch.” Dr. Sousedik and Dr. Adragni discussed their experiences with their transition from graduate school to their positions at UMBC and answered student questions.

Professors Bedrich Sousedik and Kofi Adragni speaking to students at the event

In February 2015 the Charles University in Prague Chapter of SIAM organised a week-long workshop focused on programming in the FEniCS Project. The FEniCS Project is a collection of free software with an extensive list of features for automated and efficient solution of partial differential equations. Among the main components of this tool there are the C++/Python problem solving environment DOLFIN and the Unified Form Language (UFL) that allows a user-friendly and almost mathematical formulation of the problem.

The workshop started off with solving the Laplace equation which was used to teach participants the basics of Python and provide them with a brief introduction to FEniCS. We used our previous experience from MATLAB workshops that learning by doing is the most appreciated approach by attendants. Later in the week we moved from one problem to another and solved the heat equation, the evolutionary nonlinear problems of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, and the equations of hyper-elasticity. In the end we spent the last day on computing the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator.

The course was led by two members of our faculty, Jaroslav Hron and Jan Blechta who is one of the developers of the FEniCS Project. The workshop attracted 30 participants, students and faculty staff members. We consider it to be a great success with the possibility of becoming a regular activity of our Chapter.

Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at The University of Warwick, and Steven Strogatz, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, have been awarded the 2015 Lewis Thomas Prize, which recognizes “scientists as poets.”

I will be retiring soon, after 12 great years serving as SIAM’s first Membership Manager. My fondest legacy is the student chapters. When I walked in the door in January of 2003, there were 12 chapters scattered about the U.S. No one knew who ran them or what they did. My first task was to survey the existing chapters to find out what they were doing and how SIAM could best support their activities. My second task was to put together a website that would include all the tools that schools would need to set up new chapters and request financial support (the top request identified in my survey of chapter needs.) My third task was to start telling the SIAM community about the opportunity to set up chapters and encourage them to do so at their schools.

As they say, the rest is history. Today there are over 145 chapters, including 36 outside the U.S., located in 20 different countries. It has been rewarding to watch the student chapters grow in number, in outreach to their own communities, and in the quality of an amazing array of creative activities. It was great to see the chapters grow organically. Pearl Flath, who is now at Schlumberger, was involved in the SIAM Student Chapter at Columbia University as an undergraduate in 2004. When she moved to the University of Texas at Austin to start her graduate work in 2005, she initiated the establishment of the chapter at UT Austin.

I remember the first time a member who had previously been a student and officer at a chapter at one institution contacted me about setting up a new chapter at a different school where he would now be on the faculty and serving as advisor for the new chapter. Adnan Sabuwala was an officer in the SIAM Gators chapter at the University of Florida in 2005. After earning his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2008, he got a job at Cal State Fresno, and in 2010 established a new chapter there, serving as the faculty advisor.

A new chapter tradition began at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis when David Morrissey, then President of the University of Minnesota Chapter, suggested that his chapter could help facilitate a more beneficial and enjoyable experience for the student chapter representatives attending the annual meeting by hosting a social event that would offer a relaxed atmosphere for socializing. So, the chapter organized a gathering at a local bar one night after the sessions of the day were over. A number of students attended and had a great time, connecting informally with other students from all over the world.

These are just a few of many examples in my years as Membership Manager of chapter representatives coming forward to voluntarily dedicate time and effort toward events that would benefit the SIAM community.

Some chapter milestones and interesting facts:

1975 First SIAM student chapter established at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Today there are over 145 chapters.

2002 For the first time, funding offered to student chapters to support local activities. For the 2002-2003 academic year, SIAM awarded $800 to 4 chapters. Since then, SIAM has awarded over $300,000 to support local chapter activities.

2003 First Student Chapter Minisymposium and Student Chapters meeting with SIAM Leadership incorporated into the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada (At AN03, 6 students made presentations in the chapter minisymposium, and the breakfast meeting was attended by 33 chapter representatives, advisors, SIAM leaders, and staff. Since then, 93 students have presented their research in chapter minisymposia and over 600 chapter representatives and SIAM leaders have met during the breakfast meetings to talk about how SIAM can best meet the needs of its student members and chapters.

2004 First chapter from outside the U.S. established at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey. There are now 36 chapters outside the U.S.

2005 For the first time, several chapters collaborated on a regional conference held at University of Colorado Denver organized by the 3 Colorado chapters at UC Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. Stanley Osher, UCLA, gave the plenary lecture “Mathematics in the Real World and the Fake World.” There are now many collaborative chapter events including regional conferences held in Colorado, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic States, the Southeastern States, the Chicago area, UK, and Germany.

2007 SIAM Student Certificate of Recognition program established to recognize students for outstanding service and contributions to the success of the student chapters.Since then, 363 chapter members have been selected by their faculty advisors to receive this honor!

It has been a pleasure being involved with SIAM Student Chapters and watching their phenomenal growth over the last 12 years. My best wishes go to the thousands of students associated with the chapters; I look forward to seeing what great things they accomplish in their careers in applied mathematics, computational science, and other fields.

As you know, SIAM publishes 16 highly-regarded research journals in the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. But do you know some better than others? Do you have colleagues and friends who may not know about the breadth and reach of SIAM journals?

If so, download our latest journals poster and forward along! Printed versions of the (book shelf end panel sized) poster are also available upon request by emailing Hartner@siam.org. Spread the word about SIAM journals!

April is Mathematics Awareness Month

Innovation is an increasingly important factor in the growth of world economies, and this is especially so in key economic sectors like manufacturing, materials, energy, biotechnology, healthcare, networks, and professional and business services. As new systems and methodologies become more complex, advances and applications in the mathematical sciences have become drivers of innovation. As math drives innovation, it also drives careers.

That is the theme for this year’s Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2015. Visit the website to read about real people using math to drive their careers: http://www.mathaware.org/index.html

US high schoolers contemplate if college is worth the cost

It’s likely that high-school students consider this question already. But the more than 5,000 students who deliberated on this topic this month did much more than merely weigh the pros and cons of a college education. Participants in the 2015 Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge, they used mathematical models to quantify and consider the price paid, expected earnings, and lifestyle factors resulting from the attainment of an undergraduate education. As part of the intensive Challenge Weekend, students working in teams of 3-5 spent 14 hours gathering data on tuition costs, debt burden, and labor statistics, and comparing the earning potential of various career paths, including those of STEM vs. non-STEM graduates. Over 200 SIAM members and applied professionals are now reading and scoring submissions to determine the winners of the $125,000 total scholarship prizes to be awarded in April.

New activity group on Mathematics of Planet Earth

SIAM has a brand new activity group. The SIAG on Mathematics of Planet Earth (SIAG/MPE) will provide a forum for mathematicians and computational scientists to study Planet Earth, its life-supporting capacity, and the impact of human activities. By opening up a new area of applications, the SIAG anticipates that it will inspire exciting research in the mathematical sciences. Activities of the SIAG will include the biennial SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth, as well as minisymposia at SIAM Annual Meetings and related conferences.

Stay tuned for the new Class of SIAM Fellows

SIAM would like to thank the community for sending in their nominations for the newest class of SIAM Fellows. SIAM Fellows, selected each year based on their distinguished research contributions and service to the community, help raise visibility of the mathematical sciences and honor outstanding individuals in the field. The 2015 Class of SIAM Fellows will be announced on March 31, and will be recognized at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015), to be held August 10-14 in Beijing, China.

Please go to the link below to learn more about the SIAM Fellows program:

Are you making the most of your membership?

Stay in touch with all that SIAM has to offer: in addition to SIAM’s peer-reviewed publications, books, and conferences on state-of-the-art topics in applied mathematics and computational science, there is much more that SIAM members can benefit from. Make the most of your membership by visiting the likewise named page:

Mobile app for Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

Plug www.tripbuildermedia.com/apps/siam2015events into your mobile browser. The link will automatically detect the type of device and take you to the right place to download the app. Or, view the mobile site in HTML5 by connecting to www.tripbuilder.net/mw/apps/siam2015events. You will be requested to set up an account to use the mobile app. This will allow you to share your calendar of show events across iOS and Android devices, but not with the HTML5 version. You can then select CSE15 from the list of 2015 SIAM events on the app or mobile site to view the schedule, browse speakers, attendees, and exhibitors, take a look at maps and building layouts, sync events with your mobile calendar, create your own show by selecting specific sessions, and more!

Thinking of writing a book?

Ever thought about writing a book? Wondered just what that entails? A session at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering this month will bring together successful authors and SIAM publishing staff to discuss concepts of book writing. Panelists will go over a step-by-step description of the process, from initial idea to published book, and also discuss other aspects to consider, such as when and why to write a book, the author/publisher relationship, and pitfalls to avoid. Even if you aren’t currently thinking of becoming an author, this session promises to be lively and engaging! View full details here: http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=20850

And while you’re at CSE15, don’t forget to visit the SIAM books booth. Attendees who buy two books get a 40% discount.

Want to communicate your research to the public?

Are you working on an amazing application or research project that you’d like to tell the world about, but don’t know how to get started? Visit the communication “doctors” at CSE15! Mathematicians, educators, science advocates and writers will help translate your research to a general-audience level, making it more accessible to the public. They’ll also help delineate your work into key points and relevant narratives for the media. Animations or visuals are welcome as well: load them on a flash drive and bring along. Science writer Flora Lichtman, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, NPR’s Science Friday, and Popular Science, will be among the doctors on staff.

Visit the booth in Room 255 between 4:30 and 6:30 PM on Sunday, March 15 or Monday, March 16.

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New SIAM Books

This book describes state-of-the-art advances and applications of the unified transform and its relation to the boundary element method. The authors present the solution of boundary value problems from several different perspectives, in particular the type of problems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs). They discuss recent applications of the unified transform to the analysis and numerical modeling of boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear PDEs and the closely related boundary element method, a well-established numerical approach for solving linear elliptic PDEs.
Additional information: http://bookstore.siam.org/ot141

Arc Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications

Edited by Ángel Corberán and Gilbert Laporte

Arc Routing: Problems, Methods, and Applications opens with a historical perspective of the field and is followed by three sections that cover complexity and the Chinese Postman and the Rural Postman problems; the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem and routing problems with min-max and profit maximization objectives; and important applications, including meter reading, snow removal, and waste collection.
Additional information: http://bookstore.siam.org/mo20

Student travel funds available for SIAM meetings

SIAM will award several hundred travel awards for graduate students wishing to attend SIAM conferences in 2015. Those eligible are urged to apply! Do you qualify for travel funds? Check out the criteria on the student travel awards page: